1/VII. 01.

Dear Mamma! It's been quite some time since I've had any word from you. Are you well? I recently received from Ani a letter from Mark that you had forwarded, with a postscript to me. I was very glad to hear from him (I still haven't had a reply from Manyasha to my letter), but it was sad to read that the arrangements in their cells are rather poor. And the time they've had to sit is particularly unfortunate — summer. Though the summer here is not very hot, with a lot of rain. How is it with you?

From Mitya I received the money he sent and obtained, apparently, from the sale of my gun (75 r.). Merci for it. Did he receive Nadya's letter, in which she asks him to send me three copies of my book on capitalism?

Do you have acquaintances in Podolsk? Do you see that gentleman with whom we went boating last year?214 You probably go to Moscow every week, even more than once? Hasn't anyone from our Siberian friends passed through and visited you?215

I embrace you warmly, my dear, and wish you health. Very best regards from everyone to Mitya, Mark, and Manyasha.

Your V. U.

in the journal

Sent from Munich to Podolsk

First published in 1929

*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya* no. 11

Printed from the manuscript